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Nice one
When I tell people the only social media I use is Lemmy, I always wait patiently for follow up questions immediately after, which never come, because nobody gives a shit about what obscure social media the 35 year old man uses.
I just say “I frequent a few niche forums”. No follow up questions. I’m old as well.
they all think you’re talking about 4chan
Or flashback.org if you are a swede
I frequent forums, too. Mostly car and motorcycle forums. Lemmy doesn’t really have those kinds of forums.
If you have content please post it. I’d love to have a motorcycle forum here but can’t really add content
You wanna see me install a Raspberry Pi 3 into my minivan to run the rear seat entertainment system? 😅
I’m more of a lurker than anything else haha. I scour forums for issues my cars/bikes are dealing with, and occasionally will ask a question here or there. I don’t really make many posts anymore, unless I’m doing a specific job or troubleshooting process that I haven’t seen documented anywhere else.
You wanna see me install a Raspberry Pi 3 into my minivan to run the rear seat entertainment system?
I mean, I don’t not want to see that…
Here you go. Some pics I took during the initial install a few years ago. I’m reworking the system now to mount it somewhere not almost totally inaccessible…
Ah, too many of us lurkers. We have to get some content people to make content for us
I do have a blog for my XR500 that I’m slowly working to make street legal. I initially called it a “restoration”, but it’s more of a “refresh with some light modernization” than anything else haha. I intend on keeping it as apocalypse-friendly as I can, since it’s kickstart-only, runs off a CDI system, and technically doesn’t need a battery (except for lighting)… The biggest hangup I have with that bike right now is the damn 23" front wheel that’s cracked. Not a single wheel repair shop I’ve called wants to touch it, a not-cracked 23" hoop is ~$150, and it’s too much work to convert it to 21" (that requires a disc brake conversion - I’m not tracking this thing, it’s just a commuter).
I want to know more about the raspberry pi 3 entertainment system!
If you insist 😅
That’s really cool! So the media system was there already, but you added the raspberry pi and modified it to accept hdmi as well?
It is kind of crazy how motorcycle/car culture hasn’t really moved off of old-school internet forums. I very rarely need to visit them because I’m not a car guy, but I do think very fondly of them whenever I visit, they remind me of the internet of my childhood
There’s not a whole lot of crossover between car/motorcycle enthusiasts and tech enthusiasts. IT guys seem to be an exception here (source: I worked in IT for a bit), but they’re a small minority. Car enthusiasts in general tend to lean towards the conservative side of things anyway… 👀
Lemmy is missing so much stuff, it’s pretty tough to be only here if you want any content except (left wing) politics and tech stuff
As a 23 year old man, i quite often get the follow up “whats lemmy” but nothing beyond that.
“It’s like Reddit but less”
Then they ask me what’s reddit… And I go “it’s like Orkut communities, just without the profiles” and they go “oh that sounds cool”
(Orkut was actually a thing here in Brazil)
“Less bad?” They ask.
“Well yes, but also just less.”
Hey I am not an 35 year old man! I am still in my 20’s!
…well, 29 actually, shit.
35 is rough. I’m starting to understand the whole “mid life crisis” thing.
Yeah, 30 is a blip, but I remember 35 felt like the first time that my 30s really hit home - that the years would just keep coming.
This is a bit male centric, but Neal Stephenson had a good line about this feeling in Snow Crash:
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
The process of getting old is bit like getting farther and farther away from that point. And maturity is what you do with that feeling.
Man that’s exactly how it feels. I read snow crash when I was like 16 or something and that totally didn’t even register with me.
48 here big dawg - the hits just keep on coming (good with the bad, too)
53 checking in 🙂
I’ve just had crisis when 28, lol. Don’t remind me.
I told one of my co-workers I used Lemmy, and he actually used Mastodan, so I’m the one who ended up asking him questions
Hi I’m the fediverse chick
This isn’t just Reddit with extra geeks?
It’s reddit as run by geeks.
What is misskey? I am a fediverse user and I don’t even know what that is.
I don’t even know who Nicole is???
One day she will come to your DMs
I’ve been blessed two times by her this week alone.
Nicole, the fediverse chick
Microblog platform out of Japan
https://misskey-hub.net/en/Best way I can describe misskey as a user of it is that it’s like mastodon but if they implemented every feature request possible. I mean it literally has a toggle to convert your text into cat speak for no other reason other than the dev felt like it. It even has its own markdown language to give your text crazy effects because who wouldn’t want an emoji amplified 4 times that spins and changes color?
It uses activitypub as well so it’s entirely interoperable with mastodon instances (although some functions like quote posts or the custom markdown language aren’t formatted as nicely when viewed from a mastodon instance)
toggle to convert your text into cat speak
SOLD!
Duh, she is the fediverse chick after all
I know she is, but its kind of creepy.
It’s no longer as humorous as she was at first withe them whole shit j. The world and the content just makes me worry it’s something else that we
Rob okcan’t control.Edit : ok that happened a second time this morning why the fuck am I dosing off suddenly and not realizing I didn’t check before I hit save?
Even after coming back to it, this looks like you were having a stroke mid-type.
It’s so annoying to me because she kinda looks like an ex with the same name
I’m sorry to hear that. That’s a feeling alright 😞
Your ex was named Fediverse Chick?
Ya. Why? Is that weird?
People have named their kids weirder things, so who am I to judge?
You mean to tell me there’s some kid out there named Weirder Things?
Pretty sure Netflix made a whole series about them.
A yeah, Nicole hit me yesterday again. 😂😂😂
I’ve only ever seen her in threads like this.
Whats the story on this? I had it in my inbox too a few days ago.
Has anyone explored the links and survived to report back?
That was something some weeks ago. One guy did an analysis from all these links and came to conclusion that maybe is her ex as revenge or something like that. But dunno really.
Hmm new picture once again
It is strange isn’t it? That is one thing that puzzles me a lot about this scam.
For those on traditional social media, I just say “What if Facebook and Twitter and YouTube could all talk to each other? People on Facebook could follow people on Twitter and people on Twitter can follow people on Facebook.” Then they usually reply “that would be neat” and then I tell them “yeah, that’s what we are building over here in the fediverse.”
It usually is easier to give them an analogy related to something they are familiar with.
I actually have separate accounts on the different fediverse products - for me it’s the decentralization of instances that’s the most appealing.
Ironically as a fediverse user I had a visceral reaction to reading that. That sounds like absolute nightmare fuel to me…
[off topic?] When William Gibson was researching ‘Neuromancer’ he spent a lot of time hanging out with hackers. They’d tell stories and he’d catch about a quarter of what they were talking about.
When it came to write the book he decided that he’d make the book like that, the reader would have to push though a lot of things that didn’t make sense until they acquired more information.
Story of my life. I’m so annoyed when the response is to try to get me to shut up my flattering my intelligence. “Wow you use big words, anywayyyy”. Id rather you tell me you just don’t care. Then I can stop wasting my time. It took me a long time to realize what was going on, lmao.
Goddamnit! I love this and want to share it, but don’t know anyone else that will appreciate it. Is this… irony?
You can share it with me if you want!
It is cyclical fate
To top it all off, I share this to discord groups where nobody even knows what the fediverse is.
We’re cool before cool 😎
Early in my career I learned not to overestimate anybody’s familiarity with my field.
If everyone took privacy, ethics, and computing as serious as the nerds in the fediverse the world would be an objectively better place.
I’m with you on privacy and computing but LOL at the ethics. Lemmy exhibits the same “bad when THEY do it, good when WE do it” ethics as general social media and the world at large.
Yeah that’s fair most of us have no issue stealing software and we’re definitely influenced by our own biases.
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I’ve never felt like a bigger idiot than when I try to explain the fediverse to normal people.
I don’t think this is as much as specialized knowledge issue as it is that normal people are frightingly technologically illiterate considering how much is computers. I mean this is not a hard concept to grasp at laymans architectural level
Technology literacy is specialized knowledge. You’re portraying the comic.
99% of people have no need or desire to know anything more about technology than the bare minimum to use it. The fact that you’re on Lemmy alone means you have way more tech knowledge than the average person.
It’s crazy to me that within the span of my adulthood computers have gone from being a niche interest to something everyone uses and is knowledgable about and back again.
Computers have never been something that everyone is knowledgeable about. The IT industry has kinda trended like that, but to the general population they’ve always been boxes filled with magic smoke.
And that’s perfectly fine. If everyone was as knowledgeable about computers as you or I am, I wouldn’t have a job (well, I’m currently unemployed, but that’s because of Musk).
Not literally everyone, but there was a time period where it seemed much more common than not, at least in the US. When it was taught to children starting in elementary school, and taking advanced classes was required for many jobs, it seemed rare to meet someone who wasn’t knowledgable. I guess it isn’t included in children’s education or business education these day.
Would you consider basic economics specialized knowledge?
Maybe I feel crazy rather than stupid then.
I find it easier if the other person is a podcast listener.
“You know how podcast ads usually say ‘listen to it in Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts?’ It’s a bit like that.”
If not, I have to say something weak or complicated like “it’s a bit like email, dunno how to explain this if you have never thought about how email works, though”.
That’s a really good analogy.
The email one works too once they realize they’ve never actually thought about what an email is. Like:
“If I send you an email from gmail, you can open it in outlook, right?” “Yeah”
“That’s because an email is just a file that both gmail and outlook can use” “makes sense”
“Can I see your Twitter post on Reddit?” “No of course not”
“But i can see Lemmy (Reddit) posts on Mastodon (Twitter). And these apps aren’t owned by huge companies. Normal people run each instance, and the software is free for anyone to use or host.”
I’ve heard that you can view Lemmy posts on Mastodon and vice versa, but I can’t wrap my head around it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Mastodon post on Lemmy, or maybe I have and just didn’t realize it?
What’s a Lemmy post on Mastodon look like? And what’s a Mastodon post on Lemmy look like?
[email protected] has a few examples
You ever notice those post replies that @ people’s username or names at the beginning of the comment?. Those are from Mastodon.
I usually start with email, but I wonder if podcasts would be smarter. when I read what you said, my first thought was"but podcasts require you to upload to every instance that you want to be seen on" and then I realized that for the people that are just trying to get content this doesn’t matter. That’s actually genius.
Hey… so you know about Email, right?
How you’re with Gmail and I with… say Proton. And we can still send Emails to each other? …
Is my go to approach
That’s a pretty good analogy.
it’s not an analogy lol. it’s literally the same thing.
Except using Lemmy is nothing like sending an email.
Please don’t reply all.
Consider the environment before printing this comment.
Frontend: like reddit
Backend: like email (or can just say its split into different servers controlled by different groups and they sync with each other)
I always start with, ok, so you know the internet is basically a series of tubes right? Once we are on the same page about that, I start talking about ipv4 and ipv6 including a mention of dual stack supporting instances.
At some point do you overlay it on the OSI model?
Dude don’t stop talking right when we’re on supporting dual stacks. I’m on the subway and the entire car is about to get off but now we’re just sad
